BOSTON—A Dartmouth man has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for bilking an 84-year-old widower he had befriended out of his entire $750,000 estate.Richard Souza was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston to four years and three months in prison and three years of probation.
Authorities say the 47-year-old Souza persuaded the victim to buy real estate and take out an $85,000 loan, which Souza then withdrew from banks in small increments to avoid detection.
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2 comments:
Four years is meaningless. What's wrong with our legislators. They've got to increase the criminal penalties.
I'm glad to see 4 years, but I wonder about resitution. Resitution should always be ordered too.
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